Seinfeld star Michael Richards has revealed he was identified with prostate cancer in 2018.
The 74-year-old actor, who performed Cosmo Kramer within the TV sitcom, reveals in his upcoming memoir Entrances and Exits that he was identified with stage 1 prostate cancer after a routine check-up.
Opening up about his response to the information, he instructed People, “I thought, well, this is my time. I’m ready to go. But then my son came to mind just a few seconds later and I heard myself saying, ‘I’ve got a nine-year-old and I’d like to be around for him. Is there any way I can get a little more life going?'”
Richards, who shares his younger son Antonio along with his spouse Beth Skipp, was suggested to bear surgical procedure to take away the whole prostate.
“It had to be contained quickly,” he defined. “I had to go for the full surgery. If I hadn’t, I probably would have been dead in about eight months.”
The expertise partly impressed Richards to jot down his autobiography, which might be launched on 4 June.
“I had over 40 journals I’d kept over the years and wanted to do a full review of my life,” he shared. “I’m turning 75, so maybe wanting to do that is something that comes with being my age… I wanted to connect with feelings and memory. I’m surprised at how much I was able to remember.”
Richards performed Kramer alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Seinfeld between 1989 and 1998.